Washington Notebook: VP Biden makes infrastructure pitch at SE ports

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

During a visit to the Port of Savannah on Monday, Vice President Joseph Biden made an impassioned appeal for investment in transportation infrastructure, saying efficient highways, railroads, ports, and inland waterways provide such an obvious economic benefit that they should rise above partisan politics when Congress makes funding decisions. "Where do people go to build their plants? They go to build their plants, with good reason, where they can get the greatest return on their investment, where they can do it the most economically, and where they can do it quickly and reliably," Biden said. "And it makes a difference if they get delayed a day getting out of port, or it makes a difference whether or not they can fully load e...